Building record 667/0/13 - Nos. 2 & 3 The Green & attached outhouse

{1} House (No. 3). C.1800. Coursed squared ironstone, slate roof, stone end stacks. Central 5-panel door with fanlight and stone surround with Doric pilasters, plain frieze and deep cornice. C19 horned sash windows to ground floor with flat-arched heads. Plinth, storey bands, moulded cornice with ball finials to left and right ends and stone-coped gables. 2-storey, attached, outhouse to right includes 3-bay stable and hayloft facing yard to rear. Slate roof. Chamfered stone eaves and stone-coped gable. 2-storey, 2-window attached cottage (No. 2) to left balances outhouse and has central part-glazed door with timber lintel; 3-light casement windows to ground and first floors. Slate roof and brick end and ridge stacks. Chamfered stone eaves and stone-coped gable. Probably built as the service cottage to No. 3. Interior: No. 3 has staircase hall with open well staircase from ground floor to attic with stick balusters and ramped and wreathed handrail. Fine 6-panel doors in moulded doorcases. Known as The Lodge before 1914. (P.B. Kingston, 'Blakesley Then and Now', 1983, p.9).

{4} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 10/49 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F08 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> Kingston P.B., 1983, Blakesley - Then and Now, p.9 (unchecked) (Book). SNN104682.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Blakesley (Photographs). SNN112037.

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